Podcast appearances and mentions of Robert Benson

Nothing beats the sight of a top predator as it hunts. In the British Isles that means looking up. Our birds of prey are bouncing back after decades of shooting, poisoning and habitat loss. Buzzard numbers are up by 80% since 1995 and Red Kite by 2000%. Peregrine Falcon are thriving in London and Marsh Harriers have returned to our wetlands. Helen gets up close to Black Kites and an Eagle Owl at the Owl and Raptor Centre in Kent and travel writer Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent describes the extraordinary migration of tens of thousands of birds of prey through the Batumi Gap on the border of Georgia and Turkey.The RSPB's Mark Thomas and Robert Benson of the Moorland Association discuss the threat that birds of prey still face on some of Britain's shooting estates and Jennifer Ackerman, author of 'What An Owl Knows' joins Tom and Helen to explore the science behind the night-hunting skills of so many owls.Producer: Alasdair CrossAssistant Producer: Toby FieldRare Earth is produced in association with the Open University

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Host: Allan NewsomeRunning time: 0:38:13 The New Doctor was the 24th episode filmed and the 24th aired of The Andy Griffith Show. (S1.E24) Plot Summary The New Doctor: Barney convinces Andy that handsome, young Dr. Robert Benson is moving in on Ellie. Andy decides to act and steps between these “two people lost in a […]

Overflow 10/29/23 What does it mean that God is our Shepherd and how does that lead to overflow? God is our all-sufficient Shepherd "For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them." -Jon Ortberg If we are starting with an inaccurate or incomplete picture of God, then we can never fully surrender to Him as our provider, our Shepherd. 7 So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. 9 I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. "The gospel that Jesus himself proclaimed, manifested, and taught was about more than his death for the forgiveness of our sins, as important as that is. It was about the kingdom of God - God's immediate availability, his with-us-ness that makes a life without lack possible. There is so much more to our relationship with God than just his dealing with our guilt and sin. Once we have ben forgiven, we are meant to live in the fullness of the life that Jesus came to give us." -Dallas Willard We are His Sheep If dependence is the objective, weakness is an advantage "I am convinced that the Voice that whispered us into being still whispers within us and all creation. I am dead certain of it sometimes, terrified of it at other times, and longing for it at all times. The silence that so ofter seems to overcome me is more likely a matter of my not trusting my own ears than it is a matter of the Voice having gone suddenly inexplicably silent." -Robert Benson "To partner with God as He brings renewal in the world, in the systems and organizations where we live and lead, we must learn to detect His voice before moving forward; this is a countercultural act in an anxious system, which demands action, quick fixes, and fast acting remedies for pain. Waiting on the Lord, seeking His voice is an act of revolutionary stillness." -Mark Sayers His promise is fullness to the point of overflow "There is absolutely nothing that God lacks. We must understand this, because the overflowing sufficiency that we will experience when Yahweh is our Shepherd lies in the all-sufficiency of the Shepherd himself. If we do not understand the all-sufficiency of the Shepherd, we will never experience that sufficiency in relationship to him. What we need, God has - in infinite supply." -Dallas Willard Philippians 4:10-13 10 I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity. 11 Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. 12 I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. 13 I can do all things through him who strengthens me. Burnout happens when our doing exceeds our being.

Misty Phillip sits down with Robert Benson for a helpful conversation for solo parents on this week's episode of the By His Grace podcast. Robert shares his personal story of becoming a solo parent looking for guidance. When his wife of 13 years separated from him, he was left to raise his three young daughters […] The post Robert Beeson: Help for Single Parents appeared first on By His Grace.

Dr. Robert Benson talks with TR Godbold, motivational music creator about his home town Philadelphia Eagles, and how he created music for them and other sports entities to encourage them to keep winning and believe in success.Link to T.R. Godbold music: https://soundcloud.com/user-249589098

Story of failure: Breaking our kitchen window playing baseball.Ethan Bryan is a storyteller whose narratives explore what it means to live a good story.At the age of six, he lost all of his hair due to an immune-system disorder called alopecia. Ethan knows about overcoming personal obstacles and being bullied. He also understands the power of hope, persevering through hundreds upon hundreds of manuscript rejections.The author of ten books, his writings earned him an opportunity to speak at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, an invitation to the White House for the Royals World Series championship, and endorsements from several former MLB players including Jim “The Rookie” Morris.Ethan has appeared ever so briefly in an ESPN 30-for-30 (#BringBackSungWoo) and as a background ballplayer in an Emmy-award winning documentary (First Boys of Spring). He still dreams of playing baseball (throwing out a first pitch) for his beloved KC Royals.A major fan of both Dr Pepper and donuts, Ethan was one of the best benchwarmers on his high school junior varsity baseball team.In today's episode, Ethan talks about:his first Royals baseball game his parents took him to when George Brett hit a walk-off home-runbattling Alopecia as a kid in Kansas Cityasking his dad if he could play baseball without hairretiring from baseball at age 16playing golf and winning conference as a senior at Kickapoo High Schooltaking students to baseball games while attending Baylorhow the idea of A Year of Playing Catch came abouthow playing catch with his daughters formed his writing and visionwhy he's thankful for his daughter's influence on his writingasking a news anchor to play catch and what formed afterwhy playing catch is good for the body and brainwhy playing catch develops trustbeing in a flow state while playing catchthe toll of playing catch on a daily basis and how it strengthenedplaying catch with his dad at the Field of Dreamsmeeting Stan Sipka and not breaking up a no-hittercancelled interviews and in-person meetings being cancelledwriting 90% of A Year of Playing Catch at The Mudhouse in Springfieldfinding his name in an obituary online and his thoughts and actions that followedsending a book to let a grieving family know that someone was thinking of thembeing the inspiration for Dan Bryan (not related) and why he played 365 games of catch in his son's honorstory of playing catch with Dan Bryan after his son's memorialthe story of 99 and a God wink moment with DanRobert Benson as a writing mentor (The Echo Within)story of meeting Robert Benson and thanking him for his workgoing to dinner with Robert Benson and his inspirational quotean inside the book home-run!being a first born, type A personalitystory of a B- on his report cardEthan's definition of success and whyrelationships and community around you to help guide you through failurethe wisdom and warmth of a benchwarmerstory of getting rejected with his new novel and the lessons he's learningnot giving up in the face of failurewearing his emotions on his sleeve and how he works through itprocessing failure and emotions through sweatGrip'n'Rip baseball leagueworking on the sequel to A Year of Playing Catch and why it's intimidatingcatch playing mentorship programa play deprived culture and a loneliness epidemicwhy kids stop playing baseballhow to fix the radical distrust of othersthe science behind playing a game of catchThe Life-Saving Adventure of Graceland Gordon and Her Dogthe scavenger hunt of a lifetimethe day my shoes melted during catch Twitter - @ethanbryanFacebook - @EthanBryanStorieswww.ethanbryan.comDan Bryan's / Ethan Bryan's Game of CatchMiLB ArticleThe Echo Within 

We are all on a critical journey. We are all finding our way in a broken world and hearts that are always being transformed. The two conversations on The Critical Journey that I had with Joe Chambers will anchor us into knowing a path that gives us clarity, direction, and assurance. In the podcast, Joe and I discuss a model of our own journeys to help us find our way forward through confusing times. In the two podcasts, we work through six identifiable stages of our pilgrimage in life. This week, you get "two" podcasts that you can enjoy, take your time in listening, and taking notes. Since we began the podcast four years ago, we've recorded hundred of hours of stellar conversations about the care of our soul. It's always so encouraging to get a text, email or letter from someone in the world who has benefited from them. One man wrote this: I started listening to a podcast called Potter's Inn Soul Care Conversations. Every single message resonated deep within me and was really helpful for me to reconstruct my faith around the principles that Jesus actually taught. It is a podcast of encouragement instead of conversation. It was full of hope instead of guilt and shame. A woman from Brazil wrote this to us: Although I am a member of a church, I feel that I don't quite fit in there at the moment. I had been feeling a bit alone spiritually and praying for God to send me people that had beliefs more aligned with what he had been leading me towards, and your podcast felt like an answer to my prayers. I remember listening to every episode and just weeping as I felt God's love and care for me. ​The family of listeners around the world continues to grow and by utilizing podcasts, we are able to offer stimulating conversations and opportunities to grow and mature in these challenging times. Please SHARE the podcasts to those in your spheres of circles that you think would benefit. We are watching the downloads edge closer and closer to 200,000 episodes being listened to since we started! What a milestone that will be for being a global resource in soul care! Thank you for your support! As summer continues, I will write you each week with a highly recommend podcast that you might have missed or didn't know about. Every blessing! Steve  SUPPORT THE PODCAST    ____________________________________________   SHOW NOTES How do we determine where we are on the spiritual journey? It can be 1 step forward, 2 steps back! This is what we call the Critical Journey, a model that includes 6 stages in our journey in Soul Care that we all experience in our journey with the Lord, moving toward a place of absolute being, and filled with the Father's love. 1. The Converted life – we become very aware of God and yield our life to his control. 2. The Disciples life - Very hungry with the things of god. Necessary to understand an understanding to walk with God. 3. The Productive life – we take the information we learned in phase 2 and begin to put it to work in serving the lord. The danger is an addiction to success, which eventually leads us to hitting the “wall.” 4. The Journey Inward - Moving from doing to being and letting go of the idea of “success” – complete surrender. 5. The Journey Outward - A renewed sense of calling and an integration of soul and role. Content with a more hidden life. 6. The life of Love - Deep, vibrant inner life that embraces your true self. **Download a helpful illustration that shows all six stages   RESOURCES MENTIONED The Critical Journey, Stages in the Life of Faith by Janet O. Hagberg and Robert A. Guelich 6 Stages of Faith and Spiritual Formation Chart - DOWNLOAD John 21 - Peter and the disciples are fishing Dallas Willard Bio Return of the Prodigal Son - Luke 15:11-32 Moment to Breathe, Ep. 17 - Instructions for the Journey by Pat Schneider Moment to Breathe, Ep 18 - Between the Dreaming and Coming True by Robert Benson  

Welcome to Catholic apologetics, led by Dr. Jim Dobbins, Author of Take My Hand: A personal retreat companion.  Just finished an RCIA program?  This is the next stop on your faith journey.  These are intended to be discussions, not lectures. In these discussions we look at the different truths of Catholic doctrine and why we know they are true. We also discuss apologetics, spiritual growth, examine the liturgy of the Catholic Mass and do scripture studies.  Please encourage your friends to listen. I also encourage you to leave a comment about our podcasts.  If you want the slides or any other documents for any class, just e-mail me at jhdphd@gmail.com and I will reply with the documents attached.  If you are getting the podcast files from iTunes and would like to see the full set of available discussions for download, you can see and download any of them at http://yorked.podomatic.com. Our discussions are now conducted in-person and on Zoom, something we started because of COVID. They take place every Monday morning from 9:30 to 10:30 EST (New York time).  If that time is convenient for you and you would like to join the discussion, send me your name and email address and I will add you to the notification list. You do not need to install Zoom. I will send out an email about 9:15 and all you have to do is click on the link in the email.  If you have a friend who is not Catholic but who might enjoy the discussion you are welcome to invite them. If you get this and are not Catholic but would like to participate, you are welcome to join us, recognizing our discussions are always done from a Catholic perspective. This session is the last one of our discussions in our series on The Friendship of Christ, based primarily on the book of the same title by Fr. Robert Benson.We ask you to also consider going to http://yorked.podomatic.com and become a subscriber. It is free, helps our ratings, and thus helps us reach and help more people.Please also let me know if there is a particular topic you would like to see addressed. 

Welcome to Catholic apologetics, led by Dr. Jim Dobbins, Author of Take My Hand: A personal retreat companion.  Just finished an RCIA program?  This is the next stop on your faith journey.  These are intended to be discussions, not lectures. In these discussions we look at the different truths of Catholic doctrine and why we know they are true. We also discuss apologetics, spiritual growth, examine the liturgy of the Catholic Mass and do scripture studies.  Please encourage your friends to listen. I also encourage you to leave a comment about our podcasts.  If you want the slides or any other documents for any class, just e-mail me at jhdphd@gmail.com and I will reply with the documents attached.  If you are getting the podcast files from iTunes and would like to see the full set of available discussions for download, you can see and download any of them at http://yorked.podomatic.com. Our discussions are now conducted in-person and on Zoom, something we started because of COVID. They take place every Monday morning from 9:30 to 10:30 EST (New York time).  If that time is convenient for you and you would like to join the discussion, send me your name and email address and I will add you to the notification list. You do not need to install Zoom. I will send out an email about 9:15 and all you have to do is click on the link in the email.  If you have a friend who is not Catholic but who might enjoy the discussion you are welcome to invite them. If you get this and are not Catholic but would like to participate, you are welcome to join us, recognizing our discussions are always done from a Catholic perspective. This session is one of our discussions in our series on The Friendship of Christ, based primarily on the book of the same title by Fr. Robert Benson.We ask you to also consider going to http://yorked.podomatic.com and become a subscriber. It is free, helps our ratings, and thus helps us reach and help more people.Please also let me know if there is a particular topic you would like to see addressed. 

Welcome to Catholic apologetics, led by Dr. Jim Dobbins, Author of Take My Hand: A personal retreat companion.  Just finished an RCIA program?  This is the next stop on your faith journey.  These are intended to be discussions, not lectures. In these discussions we look at the different truths of Catholic doctrine and why we know they are true. We also discuss apologetics, spiritual growth, examine the liturgy of the Catholic Mass and do scripture studies.  Please encourage your friends to listen. I also encourage you to leave a comment about our podcasts.  If you want the slides or any other documents for any class, just e-mail me at jhdphd@gmail.com and I will reply with the documents attached.  If you are getting the podcast files from iTunes and would like to see the full set of available discussions for download, you can see and download any of them at http://yorked.podomatic.com. Our discussions are now conducted in-person and on Zoom, something we started because of COVID. They take place every Monday morning from 9:30 to 10:30 EST (New York time).  If that time is convenient for you and you would like to join the discussion, send me your name and email address and I will add you to the notification list. You do not need to install Zoom. I will send out an email about 9:15 and all you have to do is click on the link in the email.  If you have a friend who is not Catholic but who might enjoy the discussion you are welcome to invite them. If you get this and are not Catholic but would like to participate, you are welcome to join us, recognizing our discussions are always done from a Catholic perspective. This session is one of our discussions in our series on The Friendship of Christ, based primarily on the book of the same title by Fr. Robert Benson.We ask you to also consider going to http://yorked.podomatic.com and become a subscriber. It is free, helps our ratings, and thus helps us reach and help more people.Please also let me know if there is a particular topic you would like to see addressed. 

Welcome to Catholic apologetics, led by Dr. Jim Dobbins, Author of Take My Hand: A personal retreat companion.  Just finished an RCIA program?  This is the next stop on your faith journey.  These are intended to be discussions, not lectures. In these discussions we look at the different truths of Catholic doctrine and why we know they are true. We also discuss apologetics, spiritual growth, examine the liturgy of the Catholic Mass and do scripture studies.  Please encourage your friends to listen. I also encourage you to leave a comment about our podcasts.  If you want the slides or any other documents for any class, just e-mail me at jhdphd@gmail.com and I will reply with the documents attached.  If you are getting the podcast files from iTunes and would like to see the full set of available discussions for download, you can see and download any of them at http://yorked.podomatic.com. Our discussions are now conducted in-person and on Zoom, something we started because of COVID. They take place every Monday morning from 9:30 to 10:30 EST (New York time).  If that time is convenient for you and you would like to join the discussion, send me your name and email address and I will add you to the notification list. You do not need to install Zoom. I will send out an email about 9:15 and all you have to do is click on the link in the email.  If you have a friend who is not Catholic but who might enjoy the discussion you are welcome to invite them. If you get this and are not Catholic but would like to participate, you are welcome to join us, recognizing our discussions are always done from a Catholic perspective. This session is one of our discussions in our series on The Friendship of Christ, based primarily on the book of the same title by Fr. Robert Benson.We ask you to also consider going to http://yorked.podomatic.com and become a subscriber. It is free, helps our ratings, and thus helps us reach and help more people.Please also let me know if there is a particular topic you would like to see addressed. 

Welcome to Catholic apologetics, led by Dr. Jim Dobbins, Author of Take My Hand: A personal retreat companion.  Just finished an RCIA program?  This is the next stop on your faith journey.  These are intended to be discussions, not lectures. In these discussions we look at the different truths of Catholic doctrine and why we know they are true. We also discuss apologetics, spiritual growth, examine the liturgy of the Catholic Mass and do scripture studies.  Please encourage your friends to listen. I also encourage you to leave a comment about our podcasts.  If you want the slides or any other documents for any class, just e-mail me at jhdphd@gmail.com and I will reply with the documents attached.  If you are getting the podcast files from iTunes and would like to see the full set of available discussions for download, you can see and download any of them at http://yorked.podomatic.com. Our discussions are now conducted in-person and on Zoom, something we started because of COVID. They take place every Monday morning from 9:30 to 10:30 EST (New York time).  If that time is convenient for you and you would like to join the discussion, send me your name and email address and I will add you to the notification list. You do not need to install Zoom. I will send out an email about 9:15 and all you have to do is click on the link in the email.  If you have a friend who is not Catholic but who might enjoy the discussion you are welcome to invite them. If you get this and are not Catholic but would like to participate, you are welcome to join us, recognizing our discussions are always done from a Catholic perspective. This session is one of our discussions in our series on The Friendship of Christ, based primarily on the book of the same title by Fr. Robert Benson.We ask you to also consider going to http://yorked.podomatic.com and become a subscriber. It is free, helps our ratings, and thus helps us reach and help more people.Please also let me know if there is a particular topic you would like to see addressed. 

Welcome to Catholic apologetics, led by Dr. Jim Dobbins, Author of Take My Hand: A personal retreat companion. Just finished an RCIA program? This is the next stop on your faith journey. These are intended to be discussions, not lectures. In these discussions we look at the different truths of Catholic doctrine and why we know they are true. We also discuss apologetics, spiritual growth, examine the liturgy of the Catholic Mass and do scripture studies. Please encourage your friends to listen. I also encourage you to leave a comment about our podcasts. If you want the slides or any other documents for any class, just e-mail me at jhdphd@gmail.com and I will reply with the documents attached. If you are getting the podcast files from iTunes and would like to see the full set of available discussions for download, you can see and download any of them at http://yorked.podomatic.com. Our discussions are now conducted in-person and on Zoom, something we started because of COVID. They take place every Monday morning from 9:30 to 10:30 EST (New York time). If that time is convenient for you and you would like to join the discussion, send me your name and email address and I will add you to the notification list. You do not need to install Zoom. I will send out an email about 9:15 and all you have to do is click on the link in the email. If you have a friend who is not Catholic but who might enjoy the discussion you are welcome to invite them. If you get this and are not Catholic but would like to participate, you are welcome to join us, recognizing our discussions are always done from a Catholic perspective. This session is one of our discussions in our series on The Friendship of Christ, based primarily on the book of the same title by Fr. Robert Benson. We ask you to also consider going to http://yorked.podomatic.com and become a subscriber. It is free, helps our ratings, and thus helps us reach and help more people. Please also let me know if there is a particular topic you would like to see addressed.

Welcome to Catholic apologetics, led by Dr. Jim Dobbins, Author of Take My Hand: A personal retreat companion. Just finished an RCIA program? This is the next stop on your faith journey. These are intended to be discussions, not lectures. In these discussions we look at the different truths of Catholic doctrine and why we know they are true. We also discuss apologetics, spiritual growth, examine the liturgy of the Catholic Mass and do scripture studies. Please encourage your friends to listen. I also encourage you to leave a comment about our podcasts. If you want the slides or any other documents for any class, just e-mail me at jhdphd@gmail.com and I will reply with the documents attached. If you are getting the podcast files from iTunes and would like to see the full set of available discussions for download, you can see and download any of them at http://yorked.podomatic.com. Our discussions are now conducted in-person and on Zoom, something we started because of COVID. They take place every Monday morning from 9:30 to 10:30 EST (New York time). If that time is convenient for you and you would like to join the discussion, send me your name and email address and I will add you to the notification list. You do not need to install Zoom. I will send out an email about 9:15 and all you have to do is click on the link in the email. If you have a friend who is not Catholic but who might enjoy the discussion you are welcome to invite them. If you get this and are not Catholic but would like to participate, you are welcome to join us, recognizing our discussions are always done from a Catholic perspective. This session is one of our discussions in our series on The Friendship of Christ, based primarily on the book of the same title by Fr. Robert Benson. We ask you to also consider going to http://yorked.podomatic.com and become a subscriber. It is free, helps our ratings, and thus helps us reach and help more people. Please also let me know if there is a particular topic you would like to see addressed.

Welcome to Catholic apologetics, led by Dr. Jim Dobbins, Author of Take My Hand: A personal retreat companion. Just finished an RCIA program? This is the next stop on your faith journey. These are intended to be discussions, not lectures. In these discussions we look at the different truths of Catholic doctrine and why we know they are true. We also discuss apologetics, spiritual growth, examine the liturgy of the Catholic Mass and do scripture studies. Please encourage your friends to listen. I also encourage you to leave a comment about our podcasts. If you want the slides or any other documents for any class, just e-mail me at jhdphd@gmail.com and I will reply with the documents attached. If you are getting the podcast files from iTunes and would like to see the full set of available discussions for download, you can see and download any of them at http://yorked.podomatic.com. Our discussions are now conducted in-person and on Zoom, something we started because of COVID. They take place every Monday morning from 9:30 to 10:30 EST (New York time). If that time is convenient for you and you would like to join the discussion, send me your name and email address and I will add you to the notification list. You do not need to install Zoom. I will send out an email about 9:15 and all you have to do is click on the link in the email. If you have a friend who is not Catholic but who might enjoy the discussion you are welcome to invite them. If you get this and are not Catholic but would like to participate, you are welcome to join us, recognizing our discussions are always done from a Catholic perspective. This session is one of our discussions in our series on The Friendship of Christ, based primarily on the book of the same title by Fr. Robert Benson. We ask you to also consider going to http://yorked.podomatic.com and become a subscriber. It is free, helps our ratings, and thus helps us reach and help more people. Please also let me know if there is a particular topic you would like to see addressed.

Welcome to Catholic apologetics, led by Dr. Jim Dobbins, Author of Take My Hand: A personal retreat companion. Just finished an RCIA program? This is the next stop on your faith journey. These are intended to be discussions, not lectures. In these discussions we look at the different truths of Catholic doctrine and why we know they are true. We also discuss apologetics, spiritual growth, examine the liturgy of the Catholic Mass and do scripture studies. Please encourage your friends to listen. I also encourage you to leave a comment about our podcasts. If you want the slides or any other documents for any class, just e-mail me at jhdphd@gmail.com and I will reply with the documents attached. If you are getting the podcast files from iTunes and would like to see the full set of available discussions for download, you can see and download any of them at http://yorked.podomatic.com. Our discussions are now conducted in-person and on Zoom, something we started because of COVID. They take place every Monday morning from 9:30 to 10:30 EST (New York time). If that time is convenient for you and you would like to join the discussion, send me your name and email address and I will add you to the notification list. You do not need to install Zoom. I will send out an email about 9:15 and all you have to do is click on the link in the email. If you have a friend who is not Catholic but who might enjoy the discussion you are welcome to invite them. If you get this and are not Catholic but would like to participate, you are welcome to join us, recognizing our discussions are always done from a Catholic perspective. This session is one of our discussions in our series on The Friendship of Christ, based primarily on the book of the same title by Fr. Robert Benson. We ask you to also consider going to http://yorked.podomatic.com and become a subscriber. It is free, helps our ratings, and thus helps us reach and help more people. Please also let me know if there is a particular topic you would like to see addressed.

SHOW NOTES We struggle to identity ourselves, but what is the real truth about our Identity? Today Dustin is talking about Identity with David Sachsenmaier, a trained and certified executive coach whose identity was challenged by a family crisis as a child and now focuses on identity as a cornerstone in his work with others. Dustin and David discuss the Three Lies we tend to believe about who we are: I am what I do: Our job defines us, we find worth/identity in our work. I am what I have: Identity is wrapped around what we have and own. “I brought nothing into this world, and I will take nothing with me when I leave this world”. I am what others think of me: Our view of ourselves is being shaped the day we are born, by our interactions with others, and especially our relationship with our parents.  About David Sachsenmaier - https://synterpoint.com/ David is a trained and certified executive coach with over ten years coaching corporate and non-profit executives and has 30 years of international experience working with US and European business executives and managers in both the corporate banking and nonprofit world.    David’s greatest passion is helping business and nonprofit leaders find maximum fulfillment, integration and engagement with their total work-life journey. He is highly trained and skilled at seeing into the lives of leaders and executives.    David has a Masters in Divinity with a concentration in counseling. This graduate degree and continued coaching training provide critical foundations that enable David to see deeply into the lives of business executives.  Undergraduate degree in international business and French from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. David and his wife Margaret and their six children moved to Colorado in 2009 after working in Hampshire, U.K. for several years.      RESOURCES MENTIONED IN PODCAST Echo Within: Finding your True Calling by Robert Benson  - https://amzn.to/2P9j00m Gorillas of Grace: Prayers for the Battle by Ted Loder - https://amzn.to/2MCGYiA Moment to Breathe - Empty Me: A Prayer by Ted Loder - www.pottersinn.com/empty-me-a-prayer/2019/empty-me-a-prayer 

We are continuing the conversation this week with part 2 of the Critical Journey, where we discuss the next three phases we all experience in our journey with the Lord, moving toward a place of absolute being, and filled with the Father’s love.   As a review, here are the first 3 phases: Phase 1 – The Converted life – we become very aware of God and yield our life to his control. Phase 2 – The Disciples life - Very hungry with the things of God. Necessary to understand an understanding to walk with God. Phase 3 – The Productive life – we take the information we learned in phase 2 and begin to put it to work in serving the lord. The danger is an addiction to success, which eventually leads us to hitting the “wall.”   Phases 4-6 Phase 4 – The Journey Inward - Moving from doing to being and letting go of the idea of “success” – complete surrender. Phase 5 – The Journey Outward - A renewed sense of calling and an integration of soul and role. Content with a more hidden life. Phase 6 – The life of Love - Deep, vibrant inner life that embraces your true self. You can also download this illustration of all six stages, including the wall at the end of phase 3. https://bit.ly/30zXwfL   Resources The Critical Journey, Stages in the Life of Faith by Janet O. Hagberg and Robert A. Guelich - https://amzn.to/2Zl0EzO Inside Job by Stephen W. Smith - https://amzn.to/2Zo9WLt     Resources Mentioned in the Podcast John 21 - Peter and the disciples fishing -  https://www.bible.com/bible/97/JHN.21.MSG Dallas Willard Bio – http://www.dwillard.org/about Return of the Prodigal Son - Luke 15:11–32 - https://www.bible.com/bible/97/LUK.15.MSG                   1 Corinthians 13 - https://www.bible.com/bible/97/1CO.13.MSG Moment to Breathe - Between the Dreaming and the Coming True by Robert Benson - https://bit.ly/2MIKvNS    

In this episode Robert Benson shares his talk, “Jesus and the 12th South Film Festival,” recorded on January 10th, 2013. Working on a book? Harrington Interactive Media, the sponsor and producer of this podcast, can help you get it to print. They can edit your book, design the cover, and help you get your book to print with Print on Demand services. See examples of their work and connect with them at www.harringtoninteractive.com. About the New Canaan Society This is the New Canaan Society Podcast for the Franklin, Tennessee chapter. We are a group of men who gather together to encourage each other in friendship and in faith, and to support each other to be better husbands, fathers—and better men—in the marketplace and in our communities. Friendship at NCS happens through our regular meetings in local chapters all across the country. The Franklin, Tennessee Chapter meets the first and third Thursday each month at Pucketts Grocery and Restaurant in downtown Franklin from 7-8 am.  Relevant Links: The New Canaan Society: https://newcanaansociety.org Sponsored by Harrington Interactive Media: A Content Marketing and Publishing Company to Help You Create, Market, and Sell Quality Media: https://harringtoninteractive.com

Wasfi Samaan and Robert Benson host another episode of the Cooking With Benny show.

I mentioned in my weekly email to the congregation this week that I have a complicated relationship with the New Testament book of Hebrews, a snippet of which we heard a few seconds ago. Frankly, it’s letter and an argument that has never quite resonated with me, something I’ll try to explain in a few seconds. Nevertheless, a couple of thousands of years ago someone did think they were making a clever point about the nature of Christ’s death and the traditions of animal sacrifice used in Judaism and other religions, so much so that others likely attached the apostle Paul’s name to this work, hoping it would get more traction, more eyeballs on the parchment, so to speak – the more important the apostle, the more likely you would get your work read. But no serious Christian or secular scholars believe that Paul wrote it – the use of the Greek language is so different than the way it was used in the known writings of Paul that it’s rare to find anyone making the case he really wrote it, except in very conservative Christian scholarly circles. But it’s simply not just the use language alone that seems off when it comes to attributing it to Paul, but the ideas themselves. It’s true Paul was certainly all about trying to bridge the divide between his Judaism and this new thing he had embraced, this faith in Jesus as the Jewish Messiah, something you see in Romans and 1 Corinthians, where he talks about the practical elements of being a Jew who follows after the way of Jesus, with all the practical questions about food and circumcision that came up for new believers in those early years. But the book of Hebrews’ focus on the inside baseball of the Jewish Temple rituals and spaces, and the role of the High Priest, and how Jesus has become that High Priest, etc, well, all that seems not all that interesting to Paul in his other writings. But there is one other thing that makes me wary of this book, which is its explicit belief that Christianity should replace Judaism, that we Christians have it right and the Jews do not because they have not accepted this Jesus of Nazareth as the Jewish Messiah. That belief is found in other parts of the New Testament, no doubt, but here it really shines, so to speak, and now the text comes to us with history tainted by a legacy of oppression of Jews by us Christians, rooted in this belief that Judaism shouldn’t exist because Christianity is Judaism’s natural ending, that Christianity should supersede Judaism, and end it, really. You don’t need to imagine how this warped belief has effected the Jewish people over the centuries – you need only look to actual history to see how we Christians and the strain of anti-Semitism that runs in much of our faith has caused such tremendous suffering to the Jewish people.   So, why would that matter? Well, to me it matters because I’m in a mood, as they say, to start debunking or to at least challenge some of those toxic ideas in our wonderful but imperfect faith tradition, and though I am not particularly a fan of the book of Hebrews as a whole, there are moments that ring beautifully true, including today’s text, which might help us to answer a question that I’ve been asking ever since I became a Christian way back in 1983. What I want to do is challenge a strain within our faith that perhaps has been there forever, but is now more prevalent than ever and that is this: this idea that intimacy, that closeness to God, is something that we should be feeling, that we should be always be experiencing emotionally, that, in fact, emotions are the marker and measure of whether or not we are close to God or far from God. And I think this idea is certainly related to the current way we understand love in our romantic focused culture – love is what you feel, and when the feeling is gone, so is love. Don’t get me wrong – I know that a emotions are part of romantic love, positive regard is part of love, but anyone who has experienced love over the long haul knows that it’s much more than emotions, muchmore than “the feels,” as the young people like to say these days. And don’t get me wrong again – I know divorces and endings of relationships have more complicated reasons for ending than the lack of the feels – I know that personally, as I suspect many of you do as well – and that sometimes the best thing that can happen is the ending of something, including the ending of a relationship. But I do think we still continue to mistake emotions, what we feel about someone in any given moment, as a measure, or maybe the primary measure of the love we have for them. But that attempt to measure love by what we feel really isn’t the best measuring stick, of course, not in romantic situations or any human relationship and certainly not in our relationship with God, with Christ, hopefully another great love in our lives.   So, where to begin in today’s text from Hebrews? First, you need to know that the author has just been making an intricate case about God’s covenant with God’s people, first understood as the Jewish people and now believed by the writer to be the followers of Jesus. Scholars seem to think the writer has been hearing that people have become discouraged at this point in their faith journeys, that they are not as invested as they were once were early on in their spiritual lives. The writer has tried to shore them up with talk of the nature of Christ’s role as the new spiritual High Priest in a spiritual Temple, and he finally comes to this point, where he reminds them that there is no need for anymore for earthly animal sacrifice for sin as was once done in the Temple in Jerusalem, because Christ has become that one sacrifice to God that ends all earthly sacrifices thereafter. What does that mean for them, his earliest readers, and to us, his much later readers? It means that we can enter into the Holiest of Holies, the very interior of the Temple itself, the most sacred space in the Temple, an honor which was once reserved only for the priests who had purged themselves of sin. God was believed to reside in that space like God did in no other place, though, of course, God was also believed to be everywhere as well. The writer of the text wants us to know that a kind of intimacy with the Divine once reserved for only a few is now available to all, to those of us who are not High Priests, or chosen or whatever. We can have that kind of intimacy with God, entering into spaces once reserved for only the few. I can only imagine the emotion some ancient Jewish High priest must have felt when he entered into that most sacred of spaces, after a time of tremendous emotional and ritual cleansing. I think the quote from the wonderful writer Robert Benson in our Modern Lesson captures it – the sheer awe of being in a place completely dedicated to the Holy, a space quite literally created to invoke those emotions of awe and wonder. It would give most of us “the feels,” I think that to be in that place, deep inside the most sacred space in all Judaism, a room in the most interior part of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.   I suspect that most of us, not all of us, of course, but most of us, could share a moment like that, one like Robert Benson’s account in our Modern Lesson, or what the High Priest must have felt like, when God’s presence was felt, felt in our soul, on our skins, in the very fiber of our being. We just knew that God was there, was here, was everywhere, and that God was felt to be fully real, or realized, real as you and I have ever known anything. These feelings likely didn’t last long, but they happened, and it gave us a sense of wonder and awe and maybe gratitude that we had been given such an experience. Those moments are truly a gift, they really are, but for most of us they are few and far between. That doesn’t mean that we who craft worship don’t seek to invite you into those moments, into the feels, but I’m always a bit wary of doing it too much – emotions can be so easily manipulated, passions can be so easily invoked and provoked within us that they can be used to invite people to do the wrong things because we are feeling so right at any given moment. Jeanette Winterson, the great novelist, once wrote in her book The Passion that she wanted a God who could meet her with passion with divine passion – and I hear it that desire in her, to have passion always be met with passion, but others also hear that as well, those who know how to work people’s passion, often for nefarious reasons. We have whole swaths of the Protestant Church attempting to make us feel the feels, often with great success, but so much of it is only about the feels, the emotions, that when the emotions desert many of us, there seems to be nothing left of our spirituality – if God is not felt, then maybe God is not there, maybe doesn’t God even exist. You can hear the echoes of those who are not wise in matters of romantic love in that sentiment – if I can’t feel love for my spouse, do I actually love my spouse?   Now, to be upfront, I personally have a surprising amount of the feels, often right here in this room, but I try not to lean too heavily into them, count on them as a barometer of my connection to God, as I don’t count on emotions as a barometer for my love for Douglas, my spouse. The problem with using our emotions, our feelings, as a measurement of whether or not we are close or far from God is that emotions, the feels, don’t always tell us the fullest truth about a situation. Feelings come and go in any relationship – one minute I feel close, and then a second later I feel distance with God, with Douglas, with my sister, and many, many others. But the truth of the matter is that such feelings aren’t the actual measure of my love, our love for each other, it can’t be, because it is not possible to always live within the feels, so to speak, and the feels, our emotions can so often lie to us. But there is something else that its actually more measurable, more grounded, more solid, than what you and I may be feeling about God or each other in any moment, something that the writer of Hebrews hints at in our text today. Remember when I said that scholars think that Hebrews was written to an early Christian community that was likely weary of being Christian, had grown tired of being faithful without getting the emotional results or maybe even the feels they once got out of it? Perhaps it was like a marriage in the middle part, where the passion has died down, where the little annoyances at the beginning have slowly built into large annoyances – and you’re not getting the emotional payoffs you did early on in the partnership. That place is where this early church is likely at – and so the writer of Hebrews points them away from the feels they surely experienced when they entered into the Holiest of Holies, and points them to the mundane, the ordinary ways that we experience God, the slow and continuous turning towards God and each other that is the heart of a deep and wide Christian faith.   You actually see that turning in our text when we are invited to draw near to God with a genuine heart, meaning a truth-telling heart, and to hold onto our confession of faith, our naming of that trust that God has gotten us through what seemed impossible to get through – that is hope, to trust in hope when all seems hopeless. Make the decision to draw near when one does not feel like drawing near, decide to throw in our lot with hope when, really, all you and I maybe feeling is hopeless. That is what the writer is asking us to do, to make decision to hope and trust when we don’t have the heart or the want to do so. And then comes the kicker, so to speak, because the writer invites them back to each other, with these words: And let us consider each other carefully for the purpose of sparking love and good deeds. Don’t stop meeting together with other believers, which some people have gotten into the habit of doing. Instead, encourage each other, especially as you see the day drawing near, the day, of course, being the coming of the Christ for the final time. Continue doing the right thing when you don’t feel like doing the right thing, choose relationship with your spiritual fellow travelers when you don’t feel like choosing to do so, keep putting one foot in front of the other, keep showing up to the rallies, the protests, the soup kitchen, the art studio, the marriage, the kids, all of it. Encourage each other in the long obedience in the same direction, as the Pastor Eugene Peterson once called it. It’s no easy thing, let me tell you, from my own personal experience. God and me, we’ve had our ups and downs, and I’ve had moments where it felt as if hadn’t entered the Holiest of Holies in years – yes, years – a place, an emotional space, where I could feel God, I could know God’s presence in my bones. And during those desert times, in my best moments, I just keep trying to do the right thing, I just keep trying to pray, I decide day in and day out to be there, to not walk away, to show that my love for God is actually not found in what I am feeling but what I am doing, for me, for others, for the ones that are easy to love and the ones that aren’t.   Mother Teresa was called into service for the poor of Calcutta as a young nun, and almost immediately the “feels” she once felt about being in God’s presence deserted her for decades – it was as if God had just abandoned her, at least when it came to her interior spiritual life. From then on, this seeming banishment from the wonder and emotions that come with entering into the Holiest of Holies caused her to find God in other ways, especially in what she did with others and for others, the daily acts of compassion she and her religious order practiced daily. To be intimate with God is to be intimately involved and implicated in God’s world, in acts of love, kindness, justice, goodness, in simply doing the right thing when one really actually wants to do the wrong thing. None of us are likely to go through what Mother Teresa went through, or at least I hope we never do, but when our feelings about God desert us, we need to know what to do when the lack of spiritual emotion challenges our devotion, our long obedience. And what must be done in those periods in our lives is to simply do what needs to be done on the long obedience in the same direction, which is love each other by doing the right thing by each other, by choosing to hope when one FEELS hopeless, to trust when you feel profoundly distrustful of God, or even each other. Still, make no mistake about it – the flood of presence, of emotion that comes when we have those moments when God feels as close to us as the air we breathe, those are real, they are true, but the High Priest in the Temple of old never stayed in that sacred space forever, and we shouldn’t expect to either. Consider it a gift from God when we have that authentic experience, an unmanufactured encounter with the Divine, in all of its wonder – and then, after it has passed, expect to the daily work of being a follower of Jesus, of making those daily choices to be faithful, to do the right thing, to love the profoundly unlovable, to walk in that same direction with others, in that slow and beautiful and challenging journey that leads more fully into the heart of the Holy. Amen.

This is a conversation with Robert Benson. Robert is an industry veteran with experience at California Chicken Cafe, Sea View Restaurants, Water Grill, Open Menu inc, and Claim Jumper Restaurants. He now manages restaurant operations for Krost CPAs and consultants. We chatted at the Restaurant365 booth at the NRA show. Enjoy!

Dr Robert Benson speaks with Dr. Brett Coldiron and 2 time Superbowl Champion Phil Simms about his experience with Melanoma.

Dr Robert Benson speaks with Dr. Brett Coldiron and 2 time Superbowl Champion Phil Simms about his experience with Melanoma.

After a brief hiatus, The Academy’s podcast, From the Well, is back with a new host, Kristen Vincent. Our original host, Rachel Kinney, is focusing on a new career in non-profit leadership. We are grateful to her for launching this podcast and wish her well. Thanks Rachel! With episode 9, we welcome our new host, Kristen Vincent. Kristen is a graduate of Two-Year Academy 34 and an award-winning Upper Room author. You can learn more about Kristen and her work with prayer beads on her Upper Room Books author’s page: http://books.upperroom.org/book-author/kristen-vincent/. In this Advent episode of From the Well, we consider how the season reveals the depth of pain and sin in the world. Mass shootings and global issues of violence point to our continuing need for Christ’s presence here on earth. Drawing on a blog post from Johnny Sears (http://academy.upperroom.org/blog/2015/11/paris), and a talk by Robert Benson, we explore how we reached this point – by denying our worth as human beings. As we prepare for birth of Christ, we are encouraged to reaffirm the worth of ourselves and others and to celebrate the contributions each of us is called to make toward realizing God’s dream for wholeness in the world. We invite you to listen, share, and engage.

We hear again and again that the Church is dying and that faith is becoming irrelevant. Taking a page from Robert Benson and Kathryn Damiano, Episode 3 of From The Well casts our changing spiritual landscape as a time of transformation and revelation. How can our community and individual faith lives shed what no longer serves them in order to find life and movement on new paths forged by Spirit? Feel free to comment and share!

The Lane Fox family offer you a very warm welcome to the Equi-Trek Bramham International Horse Trials. This annual event is both an equestrian sporting event and a social event. George's eldest son, Nick, also served in the Household Cavalry for 10 years before a career in business in Leeds and London. In 1989 he married The Hon. Rachel Baring, eldest daughter of the 2nd Lord Howick of Glendale. Together they have 5 children. Following his mother's death in 1997, Nick and his family moved into the House and he took over the management of the Estate from his father. He has further developed and diversified the businesses of the Estate. In 1999, with a grant from English Heritage, he commissioned a Landscape Management and Conservation Plan, to serve as a guide for the continued restoration of Robert Benson's grand design. In 2003 the Leeds Rock Festival moved to Bramham, further enhancing the Estate and allowing the restoration of the Southern Parkland, which had been ploughed-out during World War II. Nick & Rachel continue to develop Bramham, the 10th generation of the creator's family, preserving it for its next 300 years.

The Lane Fox family offer you a very warm welcome to the Equi-Trek Bramham International Horse Trials. This annual event is both an equestrian sporting event and a social event. George's eldest son, Nick, also served in the Household Cavalry for 10 years before a career in business in Leeds and London. In 1989 he married The Hon. Rachel Baring, eldest daughter of the 2nd Lord Howick of Glendale. Together they have 5 children. Following his mother's death in 1997, Nick and his family moved into the House and he took over the management of the Estate from his father. He has further developed and diversified the businesses of the Estate. In 1999, with a grant from English Heritage, he commissioned a Landscape Management and Conservation Plan, to serve as a guide for the continued restoration of Robert Benson's grand design. In 2003 the Leeds Rock Festival moved to Bramham, further enhancing the Estate and allowing the restoration of the Southern Parkland, which had been ploughed-out during World War II. Nick & Rachel continue to develop Bramham, the 10th generation of the creator's family, preserving it for its next 300 years.

Episode 31 - Featuring Red Giant Software, Letus Direct and Robert Benson - on the Digital Convergence Podcast by 16x9 Cinema with host Carl Olson - a visual artist, photographer, and filmmaker based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.  You can find us on the web at 16x9cinema.com and on Twitter as 16x9cinema. The Digital Convergence podcast is designed for visual artists, photographers, and cinematographers embracing new technology and techniques in practicing their craft. In this episode's first segment I talk with Sean Safreed - the co-founder of Red Giant Software. He talks about Red Giant's new plugin Colorista II as well as exciting new things coming from the genius developers of Red Giant Software. In the second segment of the show, I talk with Aaron Pinto - CEO of Letus Direct - a primary marketer and distributor of Letus products. Letus made a name for itself with it's line of 35mm adapters that allowed videographers to achieve shallow DOF and a filmic look with video cameras ranging from the consumer grade HV20 to the high end including the Sony EX1 and EX3. Aaron talks about a new line of products developed by Letus for the DSLR filmmaker. In the last segment of the show, I talk with Robert Benson from San Diego, California. He is an  accomplished commercial, advertising, and editorial photographer who has recently embraced filmmaking with a Canon 5D Mark II and motion graphics. Robert talks about a new wireless monitor he has created for the Canon 5D Mark II.  

Cynthia Brian shares all the exciting details of the September 13 Books and Bands Bash Benefit celebrating 10 years of charity literacy for Be the Star You Are! The Book of Dad features the collection of Robert Benson's observations, insights and fatherly advice. Joanne Moff has dedicated her life to helping obese individuals find and maintain a healthier lifestyle. Her book, Now What Do I Do?, offers long term success.